#Disabilities

Satendra Singh, MD

drsitu

#Autism & #WearAMask thread An autistic boy challaned by @trafficchd police in CHD for not wearing a mask while sitting INSIDE the car with glasses rolled up & in spite

Undercover Autie

UndercoverAutie

This is how disabled people have felt, and continue to feel, during this global event.Here is a genuine request to anyone who sees this tweet:Please take a look at yourself

Kari Dru

KariDru

Lrts: let's talk about that some more.Have you watched Christian movies? REALLY Christian movies? Like nobody you ever heard of is in it except that dude from Growing Pains?Watch the

Beth Schwartzapfel

schwartzapfel

Recently I got an email that broke my heart. "My name is Chris. I'm 53 and have been an addict my whole life..always opiates." 3 of her 4 brothers died

Erin Ross

ErinEARoss

Update: Due to racist threats and comments directed at Oregon's BIPOC communities in response to Lincoln County's exemption, community leaders of color asked teh county to remove the exemption, and

Kate Ducak

KateDucak

Since 300 Ont LTC homes need redeveloping & tens x 1000s of residents in 2–4 person rooms urgently need a safe & dignified place to live, let's create humane &

Karl Knights

Inadarkwood

The most infuriating finding in my search for disabled children's poets is how often disabled kids outright say, 'I want books that include me.' From the Sixties onwards, there's so

Cole (he/him)

semispeaking

I just came to think of the summer I spent doing an “internship” at a farm, earning $1.60/hour in some of the hardest work I’ve done in my life. There

Disability Justice Network of Ontario

djnontario

We received this message today via email. The experience of disability is one of the few times (other than a change in income/class) that can tangibly strip privilege from someone.

Mayor Marty Walsh

marty_walsh

Our priorities are safety, quality and equity. Safety, we will be guided by the science and data, just like we have throughout this pandemic.We will not bring students or staff

C.J. Petersen

cjforiowa

In @IAGovernor's press conference on #COVID19 today, glaringly absent were ASL sign language interpreters or live captions for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing. Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and CODA activists took notice. Iowans

Laura Quilter

lquilter

All the energy that teachers are having to spend to fight with admin...cd be spent on improving the inevitable online. Instead school dists are intent on reliving March, in Oct.

🏳️‍🌈 Julie Farrell 🏳️‍🌈

WeeRedWriter

It's sapping so much of my family's energy that my sister is being told by @jlandpartners to travel on public transport for over an hour to do stocktake in the

Ashish Goyal

insaneodyssey

starting a thread here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-56056858 this article is eye opening even for me #covid #disability #empathy #humility the past one year has been absolutely #difficult for #millions of #people

Harry Paul (he/him)

_HarryPaul_

What the heck does 'abled' mean, anyway?A Thread about Disability Language: I like language! I like talking about language. The words we use when talking about issues and identities

Despite The Loss

despitetheloss

My expanded thoughts on #TheWitches, as someone asked, "How does this effect anyone?" (A thread.) If you look at the way disability has been portrayed over the history of cinema,

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